A member of Hull and East Yorkshire's 'Save Our NHS' has a letter published in today's Mail about what must be done to help the health organisation as it emerges from another winter crisis. Here's what they say in full:

"Is it any wonder that the NHS is in crisis? Readers need to know what is going on under the radar in the NHS and where our money is going.

Since the Health & Social Care Act, 2012, was brought in by the Coalition Government, NHS services have to be put out to tender to any willing provider.

Richard Branson’s Virgin has scooped £1bn of NHS contracts this year, on top of all his other contracts. He and other private businesses are making profits from NHS contracts. Legal departments are hoovering up money setting up the contracts.

Recently, when Mr Branson failed to win a contract for children’s services in Surrey, worth £82m, he sued the Government and was paid an undisclosed, out of court sum, from NHS funds.

The latest plan is to give contracts to Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs). Big private companies based on the style of US health care.

As if this waste of NHS funds isn’t enough, austerity policy cuts to NHS budgets of £20bn from 2010 to 2015, and £22bn by 2020 are bleeding the NHS dry, so that costs of new technology and the increase in long-lived citizens needing treatments cannot be afforded.

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Under the 2012 Health & Social Care Act, CCGs (Care Commissioning Groups) have to decide where to spend precious reduced budgets, which campaigners in East Yorkshire are now finding, in their struggle to keep open minor injury units.

The NHS is 70 in July this year. We have got to campaign to end this rush to mass privatisation and waste of our money before it is too late."